Even now in speaking she scarcely lifted her head.
"Well, Frances ?" I like unexaggerated intercourse; it is not my way to overpower with amorous epithets, any more than to worry with selfishly importunate caresses.
"Monsieur est raisonnable, n'eut-ce pas ?" "Yes; especially when I am requested to be so in English: but why do you ask me?
You see nothing vehement or obtrusive in my manner; am I not tranquil enough ?" "Ce n'est pas cela--" began Frances.
"English!" I reminded her.
"Well, monsieur, I wished merely to say, that I should like, of course, to retain my employment of teaching.

You will teach still, I suppose, monsieur ?" "Oh, yes! It is all I have to depend on." "Bon!--I mean good.

Thus we shall have both the same profession.

I like that; and my efforts to get on will be as unrestrained as yours--will they not, monsieur ?" "You are laying plans to be independent of me," said I.
"Yes, monsieur; I must be no incumbrance to you--no burden in any way." "But, Frances, I have not yet told you what my prospects are.

I have left M.Pelet's; and after nearly a month's seeking, I have got another place, with a salary of three thousand francs a year, which I can easily double by a little additional exertion.